Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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What a woman. What a life.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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